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Journal of Bacteriology, October 2007, p. 7525-7529, Vol. 189, No. 20
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00782-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

In Situ Analysis of Sulfur Species in Sulfur Globules Produced from Thiosulfate by Thermoanaerobacter sulfurigignens and Thermoanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes{triangledown} ,{dagger}

Yong-Jin Lee,1 Alexander Prange,2,3 Henning Lichtenberg,3 Manfred Rohde,4 Mona Dashti,1,# and Juergen Wiegel1*

Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602,1 Microbiology and Food Hygiene, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, D-41065 Mönchengladbach, Germany,2 Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806,3 Department of Microbial Pathogenicity, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Inhoffenstrasse 7, D-38124 Braunschweig, Germany4

Received 19 May 2007/ Accepted 10 July 2007

The Firmicutes Thermoanaerobacter sulfurigignens and Thermoanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes convert thiosulfate, forming sulfur globules inside and outside cells. X-ray absorption near-edge structure analysis revealed that the sulfur consisted mainly of sulfur chains with organic end groups similar to sulfur formed in purple sulfur bacteria, suggesting the possibility that the process of sulfur globule formation by bacteria is an ancient feature.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Microbiology, The University of Georgia, 1000 Cedar Street, Athens, GA 30602-2605. Phone and fax: (706) 542-2651. E-mail: jwiegel{at}uga.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 20 July 2007.

{dagger} Supplemental material for this article may be found at http://jb.asm.org/.

# Present address: Biological Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Kuwait, Safat, Kuwait.

Journal of Bacteriology, October 2007, p. 7525-7529, Vol. 189, No. 20
0021-9193/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/JB.00782-07
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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